So I started to stitch the first vessel for the family tree - my grand grand mothers (fathers side). By the research to her person it get obvious there are no items - no memories than some photos. There she is sitting in a wheel chair in the 30th of the last century. Short time later she died at blood anemia. Even my aunt - her grand daughter has no memories. She only remembers her grand father - a very polite man - and the knowing they had a good relationship.
The stitching was formed by this emptiness - little stitches - going out of the form - a wheel chair?!?
I will let it grow a bit more and than start the next one.
These experiences underline the important knowing that it is absolute necessarily to remember to understand the present and form the future.
The 27. January was the memorial day of the liberation of Auschitz. In the German Bundestag Marcel Reich Ranicki hold a speech about his experiences during being the secretary of the obman in the Warschauer Ghetto. This was a deep impression. 91 years old he is one of the last survivals of the Holocaust. His profession was literature ciritc and writer.
He wrote his memories which were filmed for the TV. Here a photo from the film with Matthias Schweighöfer.
Will go on working .......
